Series A:

🇺🇸 USA — Petit Pot closes a seven-figure Series A [CPG]
Emeryville's Petit Pot makes portioned French-style refrigerated desserts. The company announced their Series A round co-led by Eclair Partners (Laurent Marcel) and Terri and John Penshorn, with long-standing shareholders also participating.
Leads: Eclair Partners; Terri and John Penshorn (co-leads)
Follows: existing shareholders

🇸🇬 Singapore — N&E Innovations raises $1.7M [Biotech]
N&E Innovations upcycles food waste, such as cashew husks, into antimicrobial materials for use in food packaging and on fresh produce to extend shelf life. This funding will support commercial scale-up and broader deployment of its first product.
Lead: Tundra Capital
Follows: SGInnovate, The Radical Fund, Archipelago VC, SG7 Group; existing investors Cercano, SEEDS Capital, Elev8 Capital, Qian Hu Corporation

Seed:

🇳🇱 Netherlands — Gravity Gardens raises €2.6M [Crop Inputs]
Gravity Gardens’ seed activation technology aims to improve crop establishment and seed vigor without water, chemical treatments or coatings. The Nijmegen startup will use the funding to develop industrial-scale equipment and expand trials across additional crops, targeting market readiness in 2027.
Lead: not named
Follows: Capital, Brightlands Venture Partners, Graduate Ventures

🇺🇸 USA — SweetAg raises $7.4M [Agtech]
SweetAg builds AI-powered financial infrastructure for agricultural lenders, co-ops and agribusinesses, covering loan origination, servicing and capital markets while automating workflows. Funding will be used to grow its customer base and further scale its enterprise software platform.
Lead: Diagram, Builders VC, Cooperative Ventures
Follows: N/A

Pre-seed:

🇫🇷 France / USA — Tellia raises $5M [Agtech]
Tellia, founded in 2024 built a a voice-first operating system for farms: phone calls, texts, and voice notes become structured field records instead of paper or chat threads. Already deployed across 1 million acres, the company will use the funding to improve its voice AI, build an agentic layer connecting field data with other systems, and expand its US and European teams.
Lead: Revent
Follows: Grey Silo Ventures, Jeriko / Techmind, Fund F

Stage undisclosed:

🇮🇹 Italy — Foorban raises €7.2M [Supply Chain]
Foorban stocks offices with connected smart fridges and ready meals as an alternative to the canteen. With 800 smart fridges across 500+ corporate customers, and €12M+ in revenue in 2025, this new capital will be deployed towards enhancing Foorban’s tech, logistics, and expansion across Europe.
Lead: IMPACT Partners
Follows: N/A

🏭 DigitalFoodLab argues governments need to stop treating regulatory approvals as the finish line for foodtech. As alternative proteins move from R&D toward commercialization, the bigger bottleneck is financing and building production capacity. The piece argues governments should shift support toward shared pilot and demo facilities, industrial asset conversion, and scale-up infrastructure.

🌱 KITOCOAT received SEK 2.7M (~$290K) in project funding from the Swedish Board of Agriculture (Jordbruksverket) to advance its edible, biodegradable coating for fresh produce. The coating is designed to slow moisture loss and spoilage, and trials show up to 7x(!) increases in shelf life for some crops.

🌰 Revo Foods launches COTTAGE PROTEIN+ — Vienna's Revo Foods is rolling out a fermented cottage-cheese-style product made from apricot kernels into EDEKA and REWE in Germany this month. A 150g cup is listed at 17g protein, with only four ingredients: apricot kernels, water, salt, and cultures.

♻️ A Dutch consortium led by Wageningen University has secured €4M to turn agricultural side streams into food ingredients. The six-year project comprises multiple universities, 9 companies, and other stakeholders, to use dry fractionation and fermentation to upgrade protein-rich sidestreams from legumes, rapeseed and potato processing. The goal is to improve flavor, remove anti-nutrients and add vitamins like B12 and K2. Partners include Unilever, Avebe and AB Enzymes, with target applications spanning meat alternatives, snacks, spreads and tempeh-like products.

This week, Alex Shandrovsky had conversations with:

🎤 Adam Tarshis, Co-founder & CEO, Mozza Foods — Mozza uses soybeans to produce dairy casein, the protein that makes cheese melt and stretch. In this episode, Adam discusses why molecular farming has cost and scale advantages over bioreactors, funding deep tech in food when capital is scarce, and regulatory paths.

🎤 Javed Husain, Founder & CEO, Totaleehalal — the UK’s halal-only marketplace for restaurant delivery and groceries built around strict HMC-certified standards. After a career in advertising and media, Javed bootstrapped Totaleehalal rather than taking the traditional VC route. We talk about why halal consumers need a dedicated marketplace, maintaining certification and preventing cross-contamination, expanding across London, and building a values-driven business.

Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

🇸🇪 IC Dinner Malmö — Tuesday 15 September. If you're coming to The FoodTech Forum, come to the harbor after: same format, founders and operators only, off the record. $9 covers entry and your first beer. Join the waitlist.

🇬🇧 IC Dinner London — Wednesday 23 September. If you’re in town for Future Food-Tech, join us the night before for dinner, co-hosted with Tomas Turner, CEO of Cosaic. We’re also looking for additional hosts. Register here or become a co-host.

🐮 Maine now has a $120 cow spa. Stonyfield Organic is offering pasture pedicures and peppermint-oil massages at an organic dairy farm. The cows, for the record, do not get the massages.

🍱 Think your Sunday meal prep deserves international recognition? Mob is launching a global search for the World’s Best Meal Prepper, inviting home cooks to show off their best batch cooking. The winner gets $10,000, while 10 finalists take home Smeg kitchen gear.

⚰️ Competitive grave digging is alive and well in Hungary. Nineteen teams raced to dig regulation graves using only hand tools for the annual event.

🥵 Europe’s heatwaves are now a video game. Blue Hood Games created a simulator that lets players experience European heatwaves without air conditioning. Less escapism, more sweating at your computer.